I've been running this blog for a while now, writing detailed technical articles on ASP.NET Core, Entity Framework, HTMX, and all sorts of .NET goodness. Yet my search rankings were... underwhelming. After finally investigating why, I discovered I'd been…
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"We're building an AI-powered knowledge assistant that will revolutionise how our employees access information..." Every job advert, pitch deck, and consultancy proposal in 2024-2025 Introduction I've spent the past month or so properly immersing myself in the…
Want to get nice, descriptive alt text for images on your sites or jsut extract text from them? mostlylucid.llmalttext uses Microsoft's Florence-2 vision language model to generate high-quality alt text automatically - running entirely locally on your machine,…
📖 Part of the RAG Series: This is Part 4a - core implementation: Part 1: RAG Origins and Fundamentals - What embeddings are, why they matter Part 2: RAG Architecture and Internals - Chunking, tokenisation, vector databases Part 3: RAG in Practice - Building…
📖 Part of the RAG Series: This is Part 4b - search features and UI: Part 1: RAG Origins and Fundamentals - What embeddings are, why they matter Part 2: RAG Architecture and Internals - Chunking, tokenisation, vector databases Part 3: RAG in Practice -…
Well I finally wrote an app to use Archive.org to fetch all the old content from my first blog. Which ended in 2010. mostlylucid.co.uk. Apparently I changed the server AND how I updated it throughout the years so TRICKY. Hence why it's so customized; it's the…
My system, DiSE, is a self-optimizing, self-assembling, software engineering grounded workflow builder. It generates testable code artifacts, evaluates them objectively, and evolves them over time without constant human supervision. But here's the thing:…
So you might have noticed hundreds of "new" blog posts appearing recently. Well, they're not new at all - they're OLD. Like, 2004 old. I finally built a tool to rescue my content from the digital graveyard that was my old blog at mostlylucid.co.uk. Why…
Running MigrateAsync() at startup? You're giving your app database owner rights and hoping nothing goes wrong. There's a better way - EF migration bundles let you run migrations as a controlled CI step, keeping your production app secure. But here's the thing:…
Just a very quick response to a query someone had. Even though it says "© Scott Galloway 2024" at the bottom it's technically incorrect (well copyright is automatic but YOU have the absolute right to do what you want with it). The entire goal of this site is…
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